Location, Location, Location
International date line?
International date line?
Art & science of mapmaking.
Cartography
Historic diffusion of HIV/AIDs in the U.S. ~Type of diffusion?
Relocation diffusion
Who was the first person to use the word geography?
Eratosthenes
Type of map projection that has a straight line of constant compass bearing.
Mercator
Vernacular region of the U. S. characterized by warm climate, low education rates, cotton production, and the Baptist church.
The South
An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics.
Region
Area of dominance of a television station ~ Type of region?
Functional
What uses practices that involve exploiting economic assets of different countries & moving factories from high wage regions to low wage regions?
Transnational corporations
What are the 4 distortions?
Relative size, shape, distance, and direction
Ship’s location whose position is 0 degrees latitude and 27 degrees longitude?
Atlantic Ocean
Concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena.
Spatial association
Area of dominance of a certain worldview or philosophy ~ type of region?
Vernacular region
What type of map scale would be most useful for studying the details of geographic features?
Large scale
two most common “equal-area projections”
Goode’s Homosoline & Robinsons
171 E longitude and 12 S latitude
West of International date line and just south of the equator
A region from which a phenomenon originates.
Hearth
Diffusion of HIV/AIDs prevention methods and treatments in the U. S. ~Type of diffusion?
Contagious diffusion
What happens to interactions of people as distance increases?
Decreases
What is the strength of an equal-area projection map?
Relative size
If I’m using GPS and/or I am given the coordinates 128 E longitude; 45 N latitude of what type of location are these examples?
Mathematical location/absolute location
Arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth’s surface
Distribution
Name the three types of expansion diffusion?
Contagious, stimulus, and hierarchical
Define cultural landscape and give an example.
Place where human activity has modified the environment; adobe ruins/pyramids in Egypt…
3 strengths of the Mercator projection?
Direction is consistent; distance-especially near the equator; best to deal with exaggerated shapes of countries